Artist Quotes · Page 300

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

— Kazuaki Tanahashi

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

— Robertson Davies

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

— Irwin Shaw

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and…

— Sam Francis

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

— Gustave Courbet

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

— Elaine de Kooning

We could sit back and be complacent and do the formula that we know works. To an artist, that gets old to…

— B-Real

“Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist.”

— Sarah Young

The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end…

— Adele

Painting, one arm gets tired, I'll use the other one and be just as effective. So, yeah, I've always used both arms.…

— Mike Conley Jr

I'm older now, and I been through that, like, 'Stop. Tell the truth, what I need to do?' And I think that's…

— Ginuwine

Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a…

— Adrian Tomine

So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with…

— Philip Kitcher

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your…

— Eric Drooker

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

— Julia Cameron

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

— Bonnie Raitt

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back,…

— Mandy Patinkin

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

— Franz Grillparzer

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a…

— Baz Luhrmann

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

— Patrick Kavanagh

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

— Maria Shriver

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and…

— Robert Henri

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

— Duff McKagan

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

— Anonymous

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

— Fred Tomaselli

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

— Ezra Pound

I could have $15 million in the bank right now, and that doesn't mean I'd stop trying to be a better artist.…

— Nav

For me, I think of 'Dope' as an album. There may be a love song and there may be a party song,…

— Rick Famuyiwa

“The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What we do with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.”

— Helen Maryles Shankman

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also…

— Jerry Saltz

“Go out and support the arts in your towns and neighborhoods. You strengthen humanity each time...in the process.”

— Timothy Pina

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

— N. T. Wright

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for…

— Seth Godin

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

— Mark Rothko